My daughter gets mad at her father when he comes within one foot of me. I ignore her, trying to show her that affection is normal in the family. After I give him a hug, I give her one too, so she doesn't feel left out. She sleeps in our bed, but doesn't want to sleep without us there, we still have our alone time, but it's really hard to put her to bed, she'll scream her head off for hours, destroy our room, and throw things. She's not so jealous anymore tho, so one step at a time hahaha

My husband and I have the same with our ds. When my dh and I would hug or kiss or hold hands he had to come between us. We now set up "family cuddles" at night before he goes to bed. Also, in the morning before dh goes to work I will pick up our son. We each give him a kiss first, then eachother and then we come in for our family kiss...it has definitly helped to ease the "My Mama" and "My Daddy" fits. Hope this helps!

I have found that picking my daughter up and putting her in the middle of us and squeezing her into what we call a "Kaity sandwich" with lots of kisses satisfies her so we can continue with our cuddle.

well,never mind!!my toddler also use to do this but infact still is doing the same..needs dads attention more than mine,gets jealous of even me near his father...i thought it weird too & a shame for myself that my baby is not attached with me,but then i felt ok if he is attached to his dad anyways....cus i was going to have a baby..this is when he was 16mths old,now as he is grwoing & a big brother too,my little son who is now 8mths is getting close to me more than his dad so for u sits equal one is attached to me & the other to his father,but what my husband use to do at the time of his tantrum that he use to hug& kiss him too at the same time so we r intending to do the same with the other child too as we expect this to b a part of his life too..waiting for the next one to get this tantrum,...best of luck!

It must be a stage they go through because my little girl did the same thing a couple of months ago. Everytime her daddy would get close to me she would scream and get mad at him. Now she is 22 months and it doesn't bother her at all. We would just tell her it was ok, that daddy was just loving on momma just like her loves her. Now she wants to be right in the middle of it. this too, like everything else will pass.

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